Improvement in stair-rod holders



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE ISAAC RAnI sTER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERsEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN STAlR-ROD HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,314, dated August 25, 1874; application filed June 26, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, IsAAc BANIsTER, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Stair-Rod Holder, of which the following is a specification:

The improvement consists in a peculiar construction of the holder, that renders any projection more than that of a thin piece of metal beyond the edge of the carpet quite needless to my improved holders, as will be hereinafter more fully described one object in theimprovement being the adaptation of holders to inclosed and narrow stairways, and to admit of any width of carpet that may be used upon them; and another object is the dispensing with spiral or other springs for retaining the connecticn of rods with their holders, and at the same time to conceal the attachings of the holders to the stair-risers behind the carpet.

The parts of the holders as constructed and combined are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1, in one principal and six detail i1 lustrations, clearly shows the adaptation of the holders to round rods; and Fig. 2, in one principal and two details, the like adaptation for holding flat or curved face rods. The rods in each form are shown by the letter F.

A is-a slide. B is the sleeve in which the slide works. The slot 2 in the slide A is provided for the passage of the slide over the two screws that hold the sleeve to the riser of the stairs.

' A, again, is an edge view of the slide, showing the slight projection of the holder beyond the edge of the carpet, and also the pin y, which is provided for entering the end of round rods. D designates the stationary piece for the end opposite to the slide and the pin c. 13 again is an end view of the sleeve B. The back plate of the sleeve and the plate at of the stationary end piece D are made of just the width required to place the rods so as to keep the carpet down on the stair-step when the lower edge of the plates rest on the step, forming a gage of distance so that an expert is not required to place them.

In Fig. 2, A is the slide; B. the sleeve; D,

the stationary end piece, withhooks w for holding the ends of fiat or curved face rods. Drawing out the slides three-eighths of an inch admits the rod, the friction of the slide in the sleeve being sufficient, when shoved in, to prevent its jarring out, while but little force is required to release or fasten the'rod.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A stair-rod holder consisting of the slotted slide A, having either pin y or hook w, and the sleeve B, a little larger and inclosing the slide, all constructed and arranged as described and shown, for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the slide A and sleeve B, the end piece D, with either pin 3 or hook w, as and for the purpose set forth.

ISAAC BANISTER.

Attest W. M. Goonnve, D. H. CRAWFORD. 

